For my birthday Su Yin arranged for a meal on a special offer at Les Trois Garcon. Located in Shoreditch the restaurant inside is as funky as the area on the outside. The décor, with its stuffed animals, chandeliers and bejeweled decorations, it is certainly quite decadent. Also fun to identify the random things used for decoration so I could be forgiven for paying more attention, at first, to the surrounds than Su Yin! Ha ha!

Given the fact that Les Trois Garcon seems to have garnered some pretty decent reviews I was surprised to find the venue virtually empty when we got there, and once some diners started to trickle in it also seemed that most of them had come in based on the offer. Very strange. Admittedly off the offer the 2 course meal at £39.50 was a tad over-priced compared with similar restaurants.

We started off with an amuse bouche which I think was some goat cheese concoction

Before hitting our starters of Dorset Crab for Su Yin and Dorset Snails for me! Both were nice without pushing the boat too much – though Su Yin’s plating was pretty cool.

My favourite dish of the night was my main of pork – basically pork three ways and it was simply divine. And whilst Su Yin’s dish looked pretty – she felt it didn’t have quite enough flavour.

For our dessert we both opted for the lemongrass pannacotta with mango jelly, brandy snap biscuit and cardamom ice cream. Very tasty dessert and I like the use of not so common ingredients.

Overall our meal at Les Trois Garcon was pleasant. I can see that the food could be quite hit and miss – with dishes looking good not necessarily tasting good but dishes not looking that good tasting superb. Because of that I’m not sure how well valued it is based on the normal menu – but it was certainly excellent value for money on the voucher deal (£18 for three-courses).